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Fridge Brilliance
- Raynor's arsenal of units includes a mix of Boring, but Practical ol' reliable units like Marines, Marauders and Siege Tanks, some benched or Awesome, but Impractical units like Firebats, Medics and Vikings buffed into usefulness... and the Vulture. Why? It doesn't have a particular niche to fill in Raynor's army besides being fast, which isn't a huge advantage, it's more or less the same as in the Wings of Liberty campaign in terms of attack and defense and all its upgrades hinge on those damn Spider Mines. So why's it there? Because Raynor wants it to be there. In Wings of Liberty he and Swann had an argument about whether the Vulture was a "classic piece of engineering", with Swann pointing out its shoddy design and hazardous-to-use nature before remarking that if it's a "classic" like Raynor claimed, who cares if it blows up on its user when it has a mechanical fault? Either way, of course Jimmy grabbed the vulture, even if he wasn't sure what it was supposed to do for his army. He just loved it too much not to. By contrast, Swann picked for his arsenal the more adaptable and reliable Hellion/Hellbat combo unit, which fulfills the same basic function but can switch over to a more powerful but slower form and back, subtly demonstrating his own contempt for it.
